TOPS dropped a new version of an enduring self-defense knife, the Back Bite. The new Serrated Back Bite sees the originally design’s dual edges enhanced with a full set of serrations.
Not only does TOPS have a hefty catalog, but many of their models have been in the line for years, in one form or another – and that’s the case for the Back Bite. Its vintage runs all the way back to 2010, in fact, when TOPS teamed up with martial arts expert Colin Despins for the piece; and even 16 years on, nothing else on the market really looks like the Back Bite. What to call this blade shape? A super-modified, dagger-ground chisel-tanto? At any rate, the unclassifiability of the Back Bite did not stop it from becoming a long-running TOPS favorite for anybody on the hunt for an explicitly martial, self-defense fixed blade.
Gnarly little knife, now even harder to sharpen. I can see how this thing would slice the heck out of someone in an altercation, but not sure how useful it is the other 99.9% of the time.
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